This document provides information on the history and development of the IT industry in India. It discusses what IT is, how the industry started in India in the 1960s-1970s, and how India has become a major global IT capital. It also summarizes the size and growth of the Indian IT industry since the 1990s. Key players like Tata Consultancy Services, Wipro, Infosys, and their founders are profiled. Challenges and opportunities for the future of the Indian IT industry are also mentioned.

1. Presented By:-
Rahul raj
Neha
Rishu
Nitin
Tarun

2.  What is IT ?????
As defined by ITAA “IT” is the
“study, design, development,
implementation, support or
management of computer based
information system particularly
software’s applications &
computer hardware.”

3.  IT is the area of managing
technology and spans wide
variety of areas that include
computer software,
information software,
computer hardware,
programming languages.
 It provides businesses with
four sets of core services to
help execute the business
strategy: business process
automation, providing
information, connecting with
customers, and productivity
tools.

4.  Prior to 1960- The Indian Government acquired the
computers from the Soviet Union, which were used in
large companies and research laboratories.
 In 1968 - Tata Consultancy Services—established
in SEEPZ, Mumbai by the Tata Group .
 In 1975-The National Informatics Centre was
established in March 1975. The inception of The
Computer Maintenance Company (CMC) followed in
October 1976.
 During 1977-1980 -the country's Information
Technology companies Tata InfoTech, Patni Computer
Systems and Wipro had become visible.

5.  India is now one of the biggest IT capitals in the
modern world.
 The share of IT (mainly software) in total exports
increased from 1 percent in 1990 to 18 percent in 2001.
 IT-enabled services such as backoffice operations,
remote maintenance, accounting, public call centers,
medical transcription, insurance claims, and other
bulk processing are rapidly expanding.

6.  Economies of scale for the information technology
industry are high. The marginal cost of each unit of
additional software or hardware is insignificant compared
to the value addition that results from it.
 Unlike other common industries, the IT industry is
knowledge-based.
 Efficient utilization of skilled labor forces in the IT sector
can help an economy achieve a rapid pace of economic
growth.
 The IT industry helps many other sectors in the growth
process of the economy including the services and
manufacturing sectors.

7. Domain of the IT Industry
A wide variety of services come under the domain of the
information technology industry. Some of these services are as
follows:
 Systems architecture
 Database design and development
 Networking
 Application development
 Testing
 Documentation
 Maintenance and hosting
 Operational support
 Security services

8.  The size of India's IT industry has grown significantly
over the years. The size of this sunshine industry of
India grew from 150 million US Dollars to 50 billion US
Dollars between 1990-1991 and 2006-2007.
 The growth of the IT industry has been very high in
the last few years.
 The size of the Information Technology industry of
India was 5.7 billion US Dollars in 1999-2000.
 After the turn of the century the industry experienced
exponential growth to reach the 50 billion mark by
2006-2007.

9. Key Players:
The following are India’s Tier 1
companies in the IT sector:
 Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
 Wipro Technologies Ltd.
 Infosys Technologies Ltd.
 Satyam Computer Services Ltd.

11. FY 11 Revenue
Company Market share
in Crores
TCS 37,325 24.9
Infosys 27,501 18.3
Wipro 23,606 15.7
Cognizant^ 20,655 13.8
HCL Tech 15,730 10.5
Mahindra Satyam 5,145 3.4
Tech Mahindra 5,140 3.4
Mphasis Ltd* 5,037 3.4
iGatePatni^^ 4,403 2.9
Oracle Fin 2,360 1.6
Rolta 1,805 1.2
Polaris 1,586 1.1
Mindtree 1,509 1.0
NIIT Tech 1,232 0.8
Hexaware* 1,054 0.7
SOURCE-NASSCOM

12.  IBM
 HCL
 Patni
 Polaris
 Cisco
 KPIT Cummins
 Kanbay
 i-Flex Solutions
 Cognizant
 Sapient
 Mphasis

13.  Need to move up the value chain
 Maintain high growth levels
 Retaining talent
 Political challenges

14.  Microsoft
 Google
 Accentures
 SAP AG
 HP(Hewlett packered)
 Yahoo
 CA Technologies
 Corporation
 Capgemini

15. • India being one of the world’s fastest-growing tech
markets, thriving mainly on exports is also experiencing
the tremors of the global economic crisis. These could see
marginal decline as companies will tend to hold spends on
new IT deployments.
 43% of Western companies are cutting back their IT spend
and nearly 30% are scrutinizing IT projects for better
returns.
 The IT services and outsourcing market is currently
undergoing a structural transformation that will have a
profound effect on how IT service providers will have to
conduct their business.

16.  Customers have started to reduce project scope and or
postpone new development. However, they are
locations, which could increase IT budgets towards
tangible cost saving measures

17. Tata Consultancy Services
 Founded in 1968, TCS is one of India's largest
corporate houses. It is also India's largest IT employer
with a staff strength of 111,000 employees.
 The company began as a division of the Tata Group,
called the Tata Computer Centre. Its main business
was to offer computer services to other group
companies.
 Its annual sales worldwide stands at $5.7 billion for the
fiscal year ending March 2010.

18. • Born-: In 1963
• Education -* Coimbatore Institute of Technology
* MCA from the Regional Engineering
College
 Awards
• NDTV Business Leader of the Year IT, 2011
• Top 25 most influential consultants in the world, 2006
• AIMA Business Leader award for 2011
• Vice-Chairman of the Executive
Council, NASSCOM,2011-12

20. Wipro (Western India
Products Limited)
 What started off as a hydrogenated
cooking fat company, Wipro is today is
a $5 billion revenue generating IT,
BPO and R&D services organization
with presence in over 50 countries.
 The Chairman of the Indian software
giant Wipro Technologies Limited is
Azim Premji
 Wipro was the only Indian company to
be ranked among the top 10 global
outsourcing providers in IAOP's 2006
Global Outsourcing.

21.  Born-: 24 July 1945 (age 66) Mumbai ,India
 Education-: * Drop out from Stanford university
* In 2000, he was conferred an honorary
doctorate by the Manipal Academy of
Higher Education in India
 He is a member of the Prime Minister's Advisory
Committee for Information Technology in India
 Business Man of the Year 2000 by Business India.

23. Infosys
 Infosys Technologies Ltd was started in 1981 by seven
people with $250. Today, the company boasts of
revenues of over $ 4 billion and 94,379 employees.
 Under the leadership of N R Narayana Murthy, the
company has become a global brand. The company is
now headed by Kris Gopalakrishnan.
 The International Association of Outsourcing
Professionals (IAOP) ranked Infosys at No. 3 in its
'2008 Global Outsourcing 100'.

24.  Born in Mysore ,Karnataka on 20 August 1946.
 Education -: * Graduated from University of
Mysore in 1967
* Master's degree from IIT Kanpur in
1969
 Career -: * Worked at IIM Ahmedabad as a
chief systems programmer .
* In 1976 started a company named
Softronics and which failed.
* founded Infosys in 1981.